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PUBLIC LAW 104-134—APR. 26, 1996
110 STAT. 1321-170
improvement of Indian housing, $1,384,434,000, of which not to
exceed $100,255,000 shall be for welfare assistance grants and
not to exceed $104,626,000 shall be for payments to tribes and
tribal organizations for contract support costs associated with
ongoing contracts or grants or compacts entered into with the
Bureau of Indian Affairs prior to fiscal year 1996, as authorized
by the Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975, as amended, and
up to $5,000,000 shall be for the Indian Self-Determination Fund,
which shall be available for the transitional cost of initial or
expanded tribal contracts, grants, compacts, or cooperative agreements with the Bureau of Indian Affairs under the provisions
of the Indian Self-Detennination Act; and of which not to exceed
$330,711,000 for school operations costs of Bureau-funded schools
and other education programs shall become available for obligation
on July 1, 1996, and shall remain available for obligation until
September 30, 1997; and of which not to exceed $68,209,000 for
higher education scholarships, adult vocational training, and assistance to public schools under the Act of April 16, 1934 (48 Stat.
596), as amended (25 U.S.C. 452 et seq.), shall remain available
for obligation until September 30, 1997; and of which not to exceed
$71,854,000 shall remain available until expended for housing
improvement, road maintenance, attorney fees, litigation support,
self-governance grants, the Indian Self-Determination Fund, and
the Navajo-Hopi Settlement Program: Provided, That tribes and
tribal contractors may use their tribal priority allocations for unmet
indirect costs of ongoing contracts, grants or compact agreements:
Provided further, That funds made available to tribes and tribal
organizations through contracts or grants obligated during fiscal
year 1996, as authorized by the Indian Self-Determination Act
of 1975 (88 Stat. 2203; 25 U.S.C. 450 et seq.), or grants authorized
by the Indian Education Amendments of 1988 (25 U.S.C. 2001
and 2008A) shall remain available until expended by the contractor
or grantee: Provided further. That to provide funding uniformity
within a Self-Governance Compact, any funds provided in this
Act with availability for more than one year may be reprogrammed
to one year availability but shall remain available within the Compact until expended: Provided further, That notwithstanding any
other provision of law, Indian tribal governments may, by appropriate changes in eligibility criteria or by other means, change
eligibility for general assistance or change the amount of general
assistance payments for individuals within the service area of such
tribe who are otherwise deemed eligible for general assistance pay-
ments so long as such changes are applied in a consistent manner
to individuals similarly situated: Provided further. That any savings
realized by such changes shall be available for use in meeting
other priorities of the tribes: Provided further. That any net increase
in costs to the Federal Government which result solely from tribally
increased payment levels for general assistance shall be met exclusively from funds available to the tribe from within its tribal priority
allocation: Provided further. That any forestry funds allocated to
a tribe which remain unobligated as of September 30, 1996, may
be transferred during fiscal year 1997 to an Indian forest land
assistance account established for the benefit of such tribe within
the tribe's trust fund account: Provided further. That any such
unobligated balances not so transferred shall expire on September
30, 1997: Provided further. That notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds available to the Bureau of Indian Affairs,